Laying the Trail
Safety First * Length * New Hares * Checks * Arrows * We Gotta' See It 
* Screwing the Pack * In Case of Rain * Night Hashes * Extra Info * Other

(Instructions for Hares setting Trail – Appeal to the Junta)

It takes planning, insight, creativity, and yes, some panache to lay a demanding, yet exciting Trail.

Items to Consider

Turnout
In general, the further from town you lay a Hash, the fewer Hashers will show up.

Location
About any place you find that looks cool to you is fine. Everyone likes something different, so if it's your Hash you get to choose the terrain. However, if this awesome place where you want to lay a Trail is on private property get permission first. Consuming alcohol is banned at all city parks, so keep this in mind when planning your Hash.

Starting Place
There should be enough parking for everyone you expect to show up. Make sure that it's okay to park there. Hashers seem to get pissed off when they get back from the circle and find that their cars have been towed. Try to find a spot that's easy to give good directions to. If it's a brand new area the roads may not be on the map yet. If you're laying a middle of summer Hash, it's nice if there's some shade around. Some good locations are Mall/Shopping Center parking lots. If someone gets lost finding the start they can always get directions to some mall or a Walmart.

Beer Check
This should be a place where the Hashers can slam a beer without getting harassed. They'll only be there about 15 minutes, so this is fairly easy to find. If you plan on having the beer truck drive there, it should be easy to find and accessible by a 2-wheel drive vehicle. If you want to stash the beer, in a cooler or whatever, you can have the Beer-Check almost anywhere. If you do this leave a trash bag for empties (Hashers don’t litter!). Put a gallon jug of water in the cooler especially if it's really hot.

On-In
This is usually the toughest place to find because we'll be there for awhile, at least until we kill the keg and it's better if we're not bothered by police or whoever. If its cold, try to find a place out of the wind. If we can build a bonfire without getting into trouble that's real cool! If it's hot, try to find some shade ... if possible. The beer truck and others have to be able to get in and out of there and you have to be able to give directions how to get there. If the On-In is near water and the weather is warm, scout the place out about sundown. If you see a fire-ant mound every 10 feet - probably not a good place for an On-In. If it's a particularly nasty/shiggy Hash, it's nice to have a water hose or creek around to wash off. If it's within walking distance of the start then it's less trouble hauling people back to the cars. In general, find some secluded place where no one will notice or hear us.

Food
This is up to the hares to provide if wanted.  There is no requirement for grub (it only absorbs the beer).

On-After
Usually at Dr Rockit’s. Remember all named hashers get in for free unless there is some special band and they can't allow it.

Laying the Trail

Safety First
I know we're all big boys and girls, but the less busy street crossings the better.

Length
Keep the Trail to less than 2 – 4 miles or 45-60 minutes.  You will not magically convert us all into marathoners by laying a really long Hash!

New Hares
If you've never Hared before, get a Co-Hare who has! 
Scout your Trail beforehand (if you can scout it from your car - try another Trail). 
Good lay's don't just happen, it takes some planning. 
Plan all your Shiggy, streets, cool-overlooks, Beer-Checks, and On-In carefully. 
Use plenty of flour! Start out with at least 20 lbs. of flour (under $5). 
Be creative. You're not catering to any special interest group, especially the competitive runners. 
Try and make the Trail easy to follow! It's far better to lay a Trail that's easy to find and a son of a bitch to traverse, than vice-versa. 
Try to keep the Pack together. By doing so everyone sees when someone screws up, and generally has more fun. 

    There's several ways to do this:

Checks
at least one every quarter-mile on the streets, more often in the shiggy. Consider creative Checks:
1. Song Check (sing song after most of pack gets there)
2. Boob Check Men stop must and wait for a lady to come along before they may continue.
3. Package Check Women must stop and wait for a guy to come along before they may continue.
4. Clothing Check (turn clothes inside out or backwards before looking for Trail)
5. FRB beer check (FRBs have to stay and drink the single beer on the check), etc.
6. Check Backs (CB) and YBFs. 
*Check Backs don't have to be that long and it makes the FRBs check the bad Trail. YBFs are good for buying you time and screwing the competitive Wankers (hell they like to run anyway, so let ‘em). Ideally, the DFL's should reach the Beer-Check & On-In within 5 minutes of the FRB's. If the slower Hashers say the Hash was a cake-walk while the FRB's ran their ass off, ya done good. Try and tailor the number/difficulty of Checks to the size of your Hash. Bigger Hashes get more spread out so they need more/tougher Checks but if a dozen Hashers have to work through 25 Checks it's going to take them a long time. This is a tough one to nail because you never know what your turnout will be or how may of the really good/fast FRB's will show up.

Arrows
Useful if, for some reason, you have a stretch of the trail where you can't lay flour. Hare Arrows should always be True. They're also a great help if Trail gets run in reverse which often happens.

We gotta’ see it!
Don't try to keep civilians from sweeping up your flour by hiding it! Just lay more flour. If you hide it we won't be able to find it either.

Screwing the Pack
If you're going to do something out of the ordinary that requires something special of the Hounds, you have to make accommodations. For example, if there's a tunnel, make sure everyone has a flashlight, if you’re really at a confusing point, leave a map. If there's a swim required either make sure everyone can swim or has a way around.

Note: It's okay to lie at the start of the Hash by telling everyone that they have to swim when there's no water, but it ain't cool the other way around.

In case of Rain
Lay your Chad in big piles, and not in the gutters where they'll be sure to get washed away. Try and find places to lay it where it won't get wet, if possible. Flour will stay around better if you lay it in clumps rather than just throwing it on the ground. If you squeeze the clump and set it down it will hold together better. In rain, flour sticks to wood (trees, fences) better than grass, smooth surfaces or sidewalks. You really need to use a lot of flour on a wet Hash because some your Chad will get washed away no matter how good of a job you do laying it.

Night Hashes
These should be laid at night. It's hard to tell in the daytime what will be lit up at night and what won't.  The flour will glow in the moonlight and you can develop good night vision. And don't try to hide flour on night Hashes, it's hard enough to follow at night as it is.

Extra Info
If you're going through a field of high grass you can use toilet-paper. 
(In high grass flour can be a bitch to follow, even if you've laid a lot of it.)
If different Hares are laying different parts of the Trail, make damn sure the Trails connect! 
(If one Hare's Trail ends a half-mile from where another Trail starts we'll never find it.) 
If you insist on laying the Trail by car or bike, at least run the Trail once yourself so it makes sense to us on foot and isn't too long. 
("I didn't realize that my Trail was that long." is a B.S. excuse!)
Don't lay it where it can be seen on or from the road to your Hash prior to the start. 
(If we see flour on the side of the road, we're going to shortcut your Trail and take your shorts!) 
Don't lay flour on fire-ant mounds. 
The son's of bitches will eat it in 10 minutes.

Other
You need to get the info for the Hash on the C2H3 Website, to the Hash Hotline and the RA as early as possible. This means good directions along with any special info for the Hash.

SET A SHITTY TRAIL! ….And…    ON-ON!